Opening Saturday, January 14th, from 7PM - 10PM

On view through Saturday, March 11th

Elastic Arts is pleased to announce A Hole in My Bucket, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Cameron Harvey, on view starting December 3rd through March 11th during all events at Elastic, with a reception on January 14th.

Drawing her title for the show from the traditional song, “There’s a hole in my bucket (dear Liza)”, Harvey presents her studio practice as an ongoing process of problem solving, with each successive answer opening up a new question. This creative-process-as-infinite-regress is visible across her paintings, sculptures, and installations in the reiterative forms that find themselves transposed and re-examined almost obsessively. A cluster of brush strokes in a painting echoes a nebulous ceramic mound; precise compositional balances in one painting relate to a formalist strategy employed in an installation. Shifting between media is less about exploring different territory than it is refracting the same raw material through varying conditions, with insights from one medium continually folded back into the others.

For her show at Elastic, Harvey distributes her work across not only the white gallery walls, but also in more integrated ways connecting with the interior space: interspersing small ceramic works amongst orchids she situated on shelves behind the bar, placing a small sculptural work on the coffee table, and painting an entire wall as a backdrop to a work on canvas stacked on plaster sculptures. True to Harvey’s work more broadly, her installation of these objects at Elastic displays a subtle balance of form and open space.
Elastic’s visual arts program is curated by Jordan Martins.